{"id":168156,"date":"2014-01-24T17:06:23","date_gmt":"2014-01-25T01:06:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/?p=168156"},"modified":"2014-01-24T17:09:40","modified_gmt":"2014-01-25T01:09:40","slug":"week-cdt-january-24-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2014\/01\/week-cdt-january-24-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"This Week on CDT, January 24, 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"
This week we are introducing a new feature, which we will run every Friday: This Week on CDT. We will highlight some of our top content from the week, for readers who need a catch-up at week’s end. Happy Weekend!<\/p>\n
This Week on CDT: January 24, 2014<\/strong><\/p>\n The story of Xi Jinping\u2019s\u00a0steamed bun lunch<\/a>\u00a0lives on- the latest twist involves a group of petitioners staking out the shop\u2019s storefront to air their grievances.\u00a0\u00a0Netizens are likening this latest repurposing of the bun shop story to the Song Dynasty Kaifeng Court with Lord Bao at the helm (and yes, that’s same Bao as in Baozi,\u00a0\u5305).\u00a0In this week\u2019s\u00a0River Crabbed<\/em>,\u00a0The Justice of Lord Baozi<\/a>, related Weibo posts, censored in their original source, are collected, translated and republished by CDT.<\/p>\n The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists\u00a0published data<\/a>\u00a0revealing that several family members of China\u2019s top leadership use offshore tax havens.\u00a0In this week’s\u00a0Minitrue<\/em><\/a>, directives issued by the State Council Information Office advise, in no uncertain terms, that media outlets eliminate reports about \u201cChina\u2019s Secret Offshore Tax Havens\u201d and related content.<\/p>\n CDT\u2019s Badiucao intertwines these two news stories in one masterful cartoon:\u00a0Stuffing Leaks<\/a>.<\/p>\n Five political activists-including four activists arrested last March after protesting that officials\u00a0disclose their assets<\/a>\u00a0and New Citizens Movement Founder,\u00a0Xu Zhiyong<\/a>-went on trial this week. A notice from the Beijing Public Security Bureau called for\u00a0\u201cstability maintenance\u201d<\/a>\u00a0at trial sites.<\/p>\n In Drawing the News<\/a>, we posted various cartoonists’ takes on Song Binbin’s public apology for her role in the death of Bian Zhongyun <\/a>during the Cultural Revolution.<\/p>\n